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The epic court battle between Subway and angry customers who claimed their footlong sub sandwiches were not actually a full 12 inches long is finally over.<p>In 2013, a group of people sued the world's biggest restaurant chain to get Subway to change its practices — either ensuring the sandwiches …

There's never been much love lost between Gordon Ramsay and vegans: After all, the shouty English chef does own a plethora of steakhouses and a burger chain, and he's been vocal in the past about his distaste for people who don't eat meat. Clearly, "live and let live" is not a philosophy that the</i> …

The days of restaurants making a few extra bucks by hawking their used fryer oil may be over. Crude oil prices have plummeted since mid-2014, and biodiesel fuel — which can be produced from used vegetable oil and other fats — is no longer an attractively priced alternative to petroleum-based fuel, …

<i>What is space-time fabric? originally appeared on Quora –</i> <i>the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights</i>.<p><b>Answer by Leo C. Stein, researcher in gravitational waves, general relativity, and beyond, on Quora:</b><p>You mean this?<p>Just kidding! If you like …

The greatest scientific discovery of the year gets a soundtrack.<p>When gravitational waves were announced last week, it drew to a close a decades-long mystery surrounding Einstein's theories of relativity. It was the last undiscovered piece, and the proof needed to complete the picture. The sound of …

A big press conference was held, and physicists around the world celebrated.<p>The discovery was even compared to Galileo looking through a telescope for the first time.<p>So why all the fanfare? Why are gravitational waves such a huge deal?

On September 14, 2015, 33-year-old Marco Drago was at his desk at the Max Planck Institute in Hanover, Germany, chatting with a colleague on Skype. That's when he received an email about something odd: The two massive LIGO facilities in the US had picked up a peculiar signal.<p>At first, it wasn't …

<b>Ankara, Turkey (CNN) —</b> Six soldiers were killed and another was wounded Thursday in a roadside bombing that hit an armored military vehicle in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakir, Turkey's semiofficial Anadolu news agency reported, citing the Turkish General Staff.<p>Turkey blamed the …